Agency May Approve Oak Street Extension

July 11, 1986

Kissimmee Public Works Director George Mann Thursday said there is a good chance a state agency will approve extending Oak Street across state-owned lakebottom within a few weeks.

The city plans to extend Oak Street from the Seaboard Systems Railroad tracks east to Michigan Avenue for an alternative to Vine Street. Earlier this year, city officials learned that the road would cross a small part of land that once was under water, and therefore is owned by the state.

Mann said staffers with the Department of Natural Resources in Tallahassee will either release the land to the city in the next two weeks, or send the issue on to Gov. Bob Graham and the Cabinet.